On The Boulevard (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
My garden robin in the Spring Was rapturous with glee, And followed me with wistful wing From pear to apple ...
Oh ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to War's romance, Hear ye the story of a boy, a peasant ...
Gas got me in the first World War, And all my mates at rest are laid. I felt I might ...
Ever in the ebb and flow Of my dreams that come and go, Reader, I have you in mind, Humbly ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
'Nay; I don't need a hearing aid' I told Mama-in-law; 'For if I had I'd be afraid Of your eternal ...
I don't know how the fishes feel, but I can't help thinking it odd, That a gay young flapper of ...
Should you preserve white mice in honey Don't use imported ones from China, For though they cost you less in ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
I asked of ancient gaffers three The way of their ripe living, And this is what they told to me ...
Here is this vale of sweet abiding, My ultimate and dulcet home, That gently dreams above the chiding of restless ...
He wrote a play; by day and night He strove with passion and delight; Yet knew, long ere the curtain ...
Be honest, kindly, simple, true; Seek good in all, scorn but pretence; Whatever sorrow come to you, Believe in Life's ...
My tangoing seemed to delight her; With me it was love at first sight. I mentioned That I was a ...
Dusting my books I spent a busy day: Not ancient toes, time-hallowed and unread, but modern volumes, classics in their ...
And so when he reached my bed The General made a stand: "My brave young fellow," he said, "I would ...
The porter in the Pullman car Was charming, as they sometimes are. He scanned my baggage tags: "Are you The ...
"Lord God of Hosts," the people pray, "Make strong our arms that we may slay Our cursed foe and win ...
I never killed a bear because I always thought them critters was So kindo' cute; Though round my shack they ...
He sleeps beside me in the bed; Upon my breast I hold his head; Oh how I would that we ...
This year an ocean trip I took, and as I am a Scot And like to get my money's worth ...
Italian people peaceful are,-- Let it be to their credit. They mostly fail to win a war, --Oh they themselves ...
I'm one of these haphazard chaps Who sit in cafes drinking; A most improper taste, perhaps, Yet pleasant, to my ...
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the ...
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy ...
The poppies that in Spring I sow, In rings of radiance gleam and glow, Like lords and ladies gay. A ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
When they shall close my careless eyes And look their last upon my face, I fear that some will say: ...
'Twas in the bleary middle of the hard-boiled Arctic night, I was lonesome as a loon, so if you can, ...
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